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NIGERIA'S economy has received a big boost following a recent rally in the global petroleum market leading to the price of Brent Crude climbing to its highest point in nine months to over $94 a barrel.

FRANCO-Nigerian teenage midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu who recently joined Chelsea during the summer transfer window from French Ligue One club Rennes has set himself the target of matching Mikel Obi's achievements at Stamford Bridge.

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[1] Is President Tinubu aware of the fact that in 2003, President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Maputo Declaration compelling the federal and 36 state governors to spending 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural projects?

[2] Designed to combat unemployment, guarantee food security and ensure no African nation is wholly dependent on one commodity, the Maputo Declaration was supposed to represent a commitment to economic diversification

SUPER Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has made it on to Fifa's12-man shortlist for the 2023 Men's Best Player of the Year as he emerged as the only African to be named in a list of the planet's best footballers.

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[1] Clergymen who refuse to remit 40% of their tithes as state taxes

[2] Those who import generator sets perpetuating our electricity crisis

[3] Those who own private jets at a time when Nigeria is struggling to get a national carrier off the ground

[4] Importers and distributors of luxury goods and items like Gucci and Louis Vuitton handbags that could easily be manufactured in Nigeria

MEMBERS of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and their Beninoise counterparts have ended a two-day meeting in Abuja where they have entered agreements on a range of matters including a deal to clear all Nigerian goods from the port of Cotonou immediately.

VICE president Kashim Shettima is leaving Nigeria for Cuba today where he will attend the G77+China Leaders’ Summit in Havana as part of the government's ongoing plans to woo investors and attract foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country.

SUPER Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre has officially joined the Al-Ittihad Ladies Club in the Saudi Women’s Premier League after months of speculation about where she will end up after leaving Leicester City earlier in the summer.

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[1] I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain

CONCERNS are growing over the continued delay by the Dangote Refinery in Lekki's inability to start producing petrol as promised and living up to its agreement to churn out 650,000 barrels of refined produce a day.